Nooks
Description
- Role: Procurement Lead at Nooks.
- Own and build the company’s procurement function and processes.
- Manage purchasing across software, services, vendors and other company spend.
- Establish a structured procurement process covering:
- Vendor intake.
- Evaluation.
- Approval.
- Contracting.
- Purchase.
- Renewal.
- Partner closely with Finance, Legal, IT, Security and business stakeholders.
- Review vendor proposals and negotiate pricing, terms and contracts.
- Improve visibility into company-wide spend and identify opportunities for cost savings and vendor consolidation.
- Manage the vendor lifecycle, including renewals, contracts and ongoing performance.
- Build procurement policies and controls that allow the company to move quickly without sacrificing financial discipline.
- Create reporting around:
- Spend.
- Savings.
- Vendor performance.
- Renewals.
- Procurement activity.
- Help Nooks scale its procurement infrastructure as the company grows.
Requirements
- Strong experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, purchasing or vendor management.
- Experience owning procurement processes rather than simply processing purchase orders.
- Strong vendor negotiation skills.
- Ability to analyze spend and identify cost-reduction opportunities.
- Strong understanding of:
- Contracts.
- Vendor risk.
- Procurement workflows.
- Approval processes.
- Spend controls.
- Excellent cross-functional communication skills.
- Ability to work with Finance, Legal, Security, IT and business teams.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-growing startup where processes may not yet be fully built.
- Ability to balance speed vs. control — avoiding both unnecessary bureaucracy and uncontrolled spending.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
- Experience implementing or improving procurement tools/processes is valuable.
Benefits
- Opportunity to join Nooks, an AI-powered sales platform operating in a high-growth environment.
- Significant ownership: this is a chance to build and shape procurement infrastructure, rather than inherit a mature procurement department.
- Cross-functional exposure to Finance, Legal, Security, IT and company leadership.
- Opportunity to directly influence cost structure, vendor strategy and operational efficiency.
- Startup environment with substantial autonomy and room to improve processes.